Our CEO Dr Tessa Boyd-Caine spoke to Pro Bono News about our latest report, Collaboration through the Covid19 crisis.
“Much of the effort that health and legal services had already put in over previous years really came into its own in responding to the crises of 2020,” she said.
“But services need to be invested in and supported to do that work so that they are at the forefront of crisis response and recovery.”
Our submission to the first independent review of Australia’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic drew on our previous work on COVID-19, in collaboration with health and justice practitioners and others, to make recommendations for improving Australia’s resilience to crisis.
Find out what’s in HJA’s 2021-22 pre-Budget submission.
Key lessons from health and legal assistance services operating during the Covid19 pandemic that can help Australia build back better.
Find out what our national health justice practitioner network had to say about working through the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.